The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) have granted full membership to the Turkish Standards Institution (TSE), as from 1st January 2012. TSE has been an affiliate of CEN and CENELEC since January 2008.
CEN and CENELEC now has national members in 32 European countries, covering more than 590 million consumers in total. These include all 27 countries of the European Union and three countries of the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) plus two EU candidate countries (Croatia and Turkey).
This is an important step towards the full participation of Turkey in the European Single Market.
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